Yonghyun Nam, PhD

Research Associate of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Contact information
B301 Richards Building
3700 Hamilton Walk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6116
3700 Hamilton Walk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6116
Office: 4846024909
Publications
Education:
B.S. (Industrial Engineering)
Ajou University, South Korea, 2013.
M.S. (Industrial Engineering (Machine Learning / Data Mining))
Ajou University, South Korea, 2015.
Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering (Machine Learning / Data Mining))
Ajou University, South Korea, 2019.
Permanent linkB.S. (Industrial Engineering)
Ajou University, South Korea, 2013.
M.S. (Industrial Engineering (Machine Learning / Data Mining))
Ajou University, South Korea, 2015.
Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering (Machine Learning / Data Mining))
Ajou University, South Korea, 2019.
Selected Publications
Lee ME, Ionita M, Kim J, Lee J, Huang Y, Nam Y, McKeague M, Khavin I, Fang V, Apostolidis S, Mathew D, Shwetank, Pattekar A, Rangwala Z, Fensterheim B, Bar-Or A, Abramoff B, Rhee R, Maseda D, Greenplate A, Wherry EJ, Kim D.: MAESTRO: Masked encoding set transformer with self-distillation. ICLR 2025 Feb 2025.Woerner J, Westbrook T, Jeong S, Shivakumar M, Greenplate AR, Apostolidis SA, Lee S, Nam Y*, Kim D*.: Plasma protein-based and polygenic risk scores serve complementary roles in predicting inflammatory bowel disease. Pac Symp Biocomput 30: 522-534, Jan 2025 Notes: DOI: 10.1142/9789819807024_0037; (* Co-corresponding author).
Jung SH, Woerner J, Lee DG, Nam Y, Shen L, Won HH, Kim D: Polygenic score wide association study of comorbidities to incident dementia. Alzheimer's & Dementia 20(S8), Jan 2025 Notes: DOI: 10.1002/alz.095150.
Nam Y, Woerner J, Jung SH, Suh EH, Shou H, Shen L, Kim D: BrainNetScore: Enhancing Alzheimer’s disease risk prediction using genetic-guided brain volumetric phenotype network. Alzheimer's & Dementia 20(S1), Jan 2025 Notes: DOI: 10.1002/alz.084351.
Kim J, Ionita M, Lee M, McKeague ML, Pattekar A, Painter MM, Wagenaar J, Truong V, Norton DT, Mathew D, Nam Y, Apostolidis SA, Clendenin C, Orzechowski P, Jung SH, Woerner J, Ittner CAG, Turner AP, Esperanza M, Dunn TG, Mangalmurti NS, Reilly JP, Meyer NJ, Calfee CS, Liu KD, Matthy MA, Swigart LB, Burnham EL, McKeehan J, Gandotra S, Russel DW, Gibbs KW, Thomas KW, Barot H, Greenplate AR, Wherry EJ, Kim D.: Cytometry masked autoencoder: An accurate and interpretable automated immunophenotyper. Cell Rep Med 5(11): 101808, Nov 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101808.
Moon KW, Jung SH, Do H, Son CN, Kim J, Nam Y, Yun JS, Park WY, Won HH, Kim D.: Cardiovascular risk according to genetic predisposition to gout, lifestyle and metabolic health across prospective European and Korean cohorts. RMD Open 10: e004552, Oct 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004552.
Park S, Kim D, Lee H, Hong CH, Son SJ, Roh HW, Kim D, Nam Y, Lee DG, Shin H, Woo HG.: Plasma protein-based identification of neuroimage-driven subtypes in mild cognitive impairment via protein-protein interaction aware explainable graph propagational network. Comput Biol Med 183: 109303, Oct 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.109303.
Nam Y, Kim J, Jung SH, Woerner J, Suh EH, Lee DG, Shivakumar M, Lee ME, Kim D.: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Multimodal Omics Data Integration: Paving the Path for the Next Frontier in Precision Medicine. Annu Rev Biomed Data Sci 7(1): 225-250, Jul 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-102523-103801.
Woerner J, Sriram V, Nam Y, Verma A, Kim D.: Uncovering genetic associations in the human diseasome using an endophenotype-augmented disease network. Bioinformatics 40(3): btae126, Mar 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae126.
Lee YC, Nam Y, Kim M, Kim SI, Lee JW, Eun YG, Kim D.: Prognostic significance of senescence-related tumor microenvironment genes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Aging (Albany NY) 16(2): 985-1001, Dec 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.18632/aging.205346.